i got a call from them too. but it was for an 8400$ grant i asked him why i didnt get a letter he said cause it was a treasury grant his name was Mharklee Lopez. he said i would have my money in 30 minutes if i sent in 211 dollars to the phillipeans. i told him i wanted a paper statment signed and dated and he said he could not provide me with that documentation. and hung up ha ha ha the things people do these days

I got a call from an Indian speaking fellow who claimed I was receiving a grant that I could spend anyway I want. He asked for a way for them to send the monies, either via bank account or credit card. I gave them a real bank account that I rarely used and only has a balance of couple of dollars. Then he gave me a grant confirmation number and asked me to call 202-407-9198 and speak to Mr. Donald Stamper. I never gave them the routing number to my account. I plan on calling this person and giving them a wiring number that is for incoming funds only. I have informed the bank of what is about to transpire.

I just got yesterday from a woman at the grants treasury office, she sounded like she was in a call center and gave me the 202-407-9198 number and a confirmation number telling me to call so that they could release the funds. I called and he told me to call back in 10 minuets  because it would take a few minuets to pull up my account. So i called back and got him on the phone again. He was saying he was just confirming that I wouldnt spend the money illegally  and about 5 minuets into the call we started having interference  and i lost the call. I have tried calling him back but his line has been busy for the last 13 HOURS. I called from another line and got right through but got an answering machine. I actually needed the money and have coincidentally been applying for grants and perhaps that is why I fell for this scam but this is ridiculous. Now I have to go to the bank and redo all my information. Just a warning if you actually won a grant tell them to send a paper check! if they dont want to do it then its a scam.

I also got this call today from this number( 202 407 9198) and the guy identified himself as Mr Richard Lee from a federal government office. He was kind of forcing me to confirm the acceptance of my grant money of 7000$. When I asked him why am I not getting a letter from the government but only a call if I have received a grant and that is strange, he got upset! I called the number back and told him to send me a letter about my grant and if not I dont want it, then,  he really got upset and told me that this is not a business and so on! Ha ha ha!!

I have called repeatedly from this number every day and I'm really tired and wanted to know who it is.

i also received the same call but i got my money in 2 days from the same place m realyy very happy and god bless to eric and marc and u guys wait u will get ur money

Received the same type of call from an Officer Eric Johnson.  Several more calls and complaint sites are listed on MyCallBot.com the caller ID may also read 000-012-3456.  

Contact local Law Enforcement and Western Union Fraud

I got the same call, but from Eric Johnson and he had  Mark at 202-407-9190 call me back.

Same story, thanks for the info.

I got a call from this number and talked to a guy who called himself Nick Jorden.  He told me I was getting a $6,000 grant.  He said he had already sent a wire transfer via Western Union but before I could pick it up I needed to wire him $299.  I knew it was a scam and didn't send the money.  This guy even gave me a fake Western Union wire transfer confirmation number for the $6,000 he said he had already sent.  What he didn't know is that I was a Western Union agent for years and I know what the procedures are for sending that much money...and it can't be done that simply online like he said he'd done.  I filed a fraud report with Western Union, a report with my local police and one with the local FBI office.  An investigation into this scam artist is underway.